A recent breach forced a video streaming and gaming community to reset all of their users’ passwords, forcing users to choose a new password after their next login, according to ArsTechnica.com.Read more...

Back at the end of November 2014, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released an IT security audit report on the state of Premera’s security profile, noting a gap in access controls. A few months later, Premera discovered a breach of their systems that may have compromised the medical and financial data of 11 million individuals.Read more...

The Weekly Ink is the weekly newsletter brought to you by Duo Labs, with curated links of interest in the security world to help educate the company - and anyone else who will listen - on security happenings and culture.Read more...

The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) finds that the energy sector reported the highest number of security incidents in 2014 at 32 percent, while the critical manufacturing industry came in second at 27 percent, in their most recent Monitor newsletter.Read more...

In most breach cases, a devious lone hacker, or an army of state-sponsored foreign attackers are among the defendants named in the media. But former employees may also pose a serious risk, as an FBI press release about a security breach case involving a New York company and former employee revealed a few weeks ago.Read more...

As The Wall Street Journal reported, criminals are loading stolen credit card data on iPhones in order to make fraudulent purchases, taking advantage of lax bank security requirements for authentication.Read more...

A new study from CloudPassage, the LinkedIn Cloud Security Spotlight Report, has found that in order to secure the cloud, information security professionals are moving away from perimeter-based security models.Read more...

Mobile apps that take on the work of online banks need also take on the responsibility of security. This could be seen in the recent Slate article detailing the hack of a web developer’s account with Venmo...Read more...

If you have credit card data, they will come. While retail data breaches appeared to be in vogue last year, they haven’t exactly gone out of style quite yet - Zoup, a soup eatery chain, and Natural Grocers, a health food chain may be victims of credit card theft, according to Brian Krebs.Read more...

Security company Bronzeye has reported the possibility of a bypass of two-factor authentication (referred to as ‘two-step authentication’) used by a large UK bank, as the Financial Times reported.Read more...